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January 9th, 2017 is when our next Worship Justly (refugee-focused DTS) Discipleship Training School (DTS) kicks off here in Boise, Idaho. During the 3-month long DTS "Training" Phase you will have a different teacher and topic each week but you will also connect...

Greece & Cyprus Update #4 I think the biggest difficulty in summarizing the past few weeks is the struggle of putting in to words what we have seen and heard. It is one thing to see it on the news or read about the refugee crisis and something totally different...

Our teams have now been here in Greece and Cyprus for about a month. Here's a short update on what's been going on! Greece Our Greece team left Athens with heavy hearts. They made many new friends from all over the world and saw refugees from closed nations give...

Greece & Cyprus Update #2 We've now been in Greece and Cyprus for around three weeks. We've all overcome our jet lag and the teams have adjusted well to new foods, uncomfortable beds and a different culture. However, the one thing that has not gotten any easier...

This weekend I attended the Azusa Now gathering in Los Angeles. An event highlight was the challenging call to complete the great commission. This is one of my personal passions. In fact, nearly every day for the past 14 years I have prayed to the Lord of the...

YWAM Boise Greece & Cyprus Outreach Update #1 Our teams have been on the ground in the heart of the greatest refugee crisis of our generation for about 2 weeks now. What we have seen and the people we have met will change us forever. We are convinced that the...

A Prophetic WISE School story… We were out walking on the beach when we spotted a woman standing alone looking out at the ocean with long black hair and a beautiful face. She looked like she was in her forties and it was easy to notice that she was thinking deeply. I...

Over 7,000 miles away sets a small, mountainous country near the Himalayas in Asia. Bhutan is a world away but now is also right in our backyard. Boise, Idaho is a host city for refugees and has been for many years. For the past ten years, refugees fleeing Bhutan...

Our Boise DTS is at the end of our 5th week of the Lecture Phase. The students have all known that our outreach options have been either Greece or Cyprus to work with refugees, but they didn't know which country they were going to. As our staff prayed over our...